Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

have played many a wedding and…..
what is it about last night of "freedom" mixed with alcohol?……

I have an even wilder wedding story involving alcohol, but it might raise the ire of TB.

 

[Hondapunk]

OHHH NOOOOO ! THEY'RE CRANKING UP THE LABOR DAY GEAR SALES. NOOOO ! HELLLLPPPPP MEEEE PLEEEEEASE !!!!

 

[PaleAngel_90]

A) Unlikely I'll be getting a 2021-or any other new(to me, anyway)bass. (2).I'm very much a creature of habit*. Change and I don't get along.

* see: flipphone.

Hey, at least Zuck can't steal your data to sell it to 3rd parties, that's a great bonus.

 

[bobyoung53]

Good. because I always loved that! 8^P

It was in mint shape on my album!

 

[Miles_ONeal]

For all you Bob Seger Lovers

That looks like Peter Tork's sibling on drums.

 

[Hondapunk]

Hey, at least Zuck can't steal your data to sell it to 3rd parties, that's a great bonus.

We're not the customer, we're the product .

 

[PaleAngel_90]

I Tawt I Taw purple silks

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I never could stand the huge head, obnoxious bird or the bastard mouse.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

I never got to see them. Which really pains me. Style-wise, they really charted their own course. I love most everything they did, even the later albums. Even when they as a band weren't on top of their game they were still great. I love listening to his parts, especially live. Such a cool tone as well.

The only time I saw them[1] was in 74, post-Duane-and-Barry. It kills me that I lived so close but never got to go see them play in Atlanta or Macon. If they came to Augusta, I didn't hear about it.

[1] I assume I saw them. I vaguely remember Marshall Tucker playing, but only vaguely. I was stoned out of my gourd. I missed a lot of good concerts that I attended. Idiot.

 

[bobyoung53]

It was in mint shape on my album!

Two more songs I used to skip:

'Revolution #9'

'A Small Package of Value Will Come to you, Shortly'

I never skipped any tunes on the early Mothers of Invention albums though.

 

[PaleAngel_90]

We're not the customer, we're the product .

Sadly, yes.

 

[bobyoung53]

The only time I saw them[1] was in 74, post-Duane-and-Barry. It kills me that I lived so close but never got to go see them play in Atlanta or Macon. If they came to Augusta, I didn't hear about it.

[1] I assume I saw them. I vaguely remember Marshall Tucker playing, but only vaguely. I was stoned out of my gourd. I missed a lot of good concerts that I attended. Idiot.

ABB used to play at Boston Common often in 1970 except I had no idea who they were, half hour/ three quarter hour drive with no traffic.

 

[bobyoung53]

Martin Turner...........

I opened for them during the early 80's in a big club (Shaboo Inn, CT) but wasn't interested in the band and have no idea if he was there or if he was, what he played, ......bad attitude, I know.

 

[dagrev]

OHHH NOOOOO ! THEY'RE CRANKING UP THE LABOR DAY GEAR SALES. NOOOO ! HELLLLPPPPP MEEEE PLEEEEEASE !!!!

Just post your credit card and we'll max it out and you won't be able to fall into temptation and buy anything. Problem solved.

 

[dagrev]

Blackbird geek moment here. An engineer who worked on engine program.


I have proudly mentioned before that Ashland Oil here in Ky was the source for the fuel because the refinery produced the best JP7 they could find.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Martin Turner...........

I wonder if he ever thought about getting a wishbone double Thunderbird. Then he could have a headstock break, toss the useless bird, and keep playing. Of course, that body would be ash instead of mahogany...

 

[bobyoung53]

Blackbird geek moment here. An engineer who worked on engine program.


I have proudly mentioned before that Ashland Oil here in Ky was the source for the fuel because the refinery produced the best JP7 they could find.

Was that double distilled?

 

[bobyoung53]

Blackbird geek moment here. An engineer who worked on engine program.


I have proudly mentioned before that Ashland Oil here in Ky was the source for the fuel because the refinery produced the best JP7 they could find.

I just read the Wiki entry on that engine, amazing.

 

[bobyoung53]

I never could stand the huge head, obnoxious bird or the bastard mouse.

How about this one?

 

[Hondapunk]

A tribute to the most powerful machine ever made.....still to this day and still gives me shivers

 

[GBassNorth]

This is interesting. I take it the .068 in the Goth leads to a darker tone? And the .022 in yours makes it quite a bit brighter? Does this have an affect when the tone is set to 10? I am very new to this! With a baby on the way and selling my collection down to a single bass (my most sentimental Tbird, despite playing my old American Standard P more) I actually like the idea of making her a bit brighter and more versatile.

A tone cap in a passive bass is basically a filter that passes some of the frequency to the ground. You only actually hear the signal that is not filtered to ground. So if your tone pot is turned to zero more of the signal is available to the cap where the frequencies can be filtered to ground. The higher the caps value the more high frequency signal is passed to ground. So yes the .068 cap in the Goth will send more high end content to ground where you can't hear it vs a standard Tbird cap at .047uf. As the tone knob is turned closer to 10 (or max) less high end content is sent to ground and the bass sounds brighter.

I personally like the .022 cap on the Goth because the pickups are overwound and darker sounding than most Tbirds. The .068 cap in the Goth was just too much of a good thing in my opinion. The .022 cap opens up the Goth sound quite a bit and drastically increases the range of the tone knob.

A very worthwhile experiment would be to get a half dozen different value tone caps (they are dirt cheap) and try each one (just clipped in place not soldered) until you find what you like best.

I used a no-load tone pot on my Classic Pro to be able to get a brighter tone, but without sacrificing the darker sounds with the tone rolled off.
So "10" on the tone pot bypasses it, goes straight to output; 0-9 work as normal.
Worked out great!

A no load tone pot should be standard on every bass. Just adds a whole new flavor to the bass.